The Gaoussou Dabo School in the Malian capital, Bamako, is among 1,000 schools that benefited from mother-tongue education thanks to funding from USAID. Teachers trained for the program last year ...

A phrase meaning ''our future'' in the country's main local language, it refers to a yearslong program aimed at teaching around 20,000 young Malians to read and write in their local languages.

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